Below, you’ll find suggestions for other helpful online resources to aid in your learning.

Apps

• Behind the Knife: Apple, Google
• GoodRx: Apple, Google
• MayaPro: Apple, Google
• MDCalc: Apple, Google
• Society for Vascular Surgery: Apple, Google
• U.S. Prevention Task Force: Apple, Google
• Add us as an app to your phone home page!
  • Apple: visit our site on Safari > Share > Add to Home Screen
  • Google: visit our site on Chrome > Menu > Add to Home Screen

Websites

• Get the Diagnosis: A Database of Sensitivity and Specificity
• Operative Review of Surgery
• Cochrane
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• Retraction Watch
• Trip Database: find high quality clinical research evidence
• ECG Weekly (membership required)
• VHDissector: most helpful first two years of medical school for anatomy

Books

• Textbooks
  • Sabiston Textbook of Surgery
  • Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations
  • Fischer’s Master of Surgery
  • Cameron’s Current Surgical Therapy
• Books
  • An Introduction to the History of General Surgery (1968) by Richard Hardaway Meade
  • The Development of Modern Surgery (1968) by Frederick F. Cartwright
  • The Making of a Surgeon (1970) by William Nolen
  • A Surgeon’s World (1972) by William Nolen
  • Ice Bound (2000) by Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers
  • Top Knife: The Art and Craft of Trauma Surgery (2004)
  • When Breath Becomes Air (2016) by Paul Kalanithi
  • Clinical Reasoning: How Doctors Should Think (2022) by Howard Herrell
  • Washington Manual of Surgery (2023)

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• Ob/Gyn Student
• Thinking About Ob/Gyn Podcast
• Electric Fetal Monitoring
• Wonderful Pregnancy: for patients